Hamipterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Hamipterus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Hamipterus fossil was discovered in 2014.
Quick facts about Hamipterus:
- Existed from Lower Cretaceous Epoch to 100.5 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Hamipterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- X. Wang and A. W. A. Kellner. 2014. Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24:1323-1330
